Only seven years after moving into their 12,000 square foot office on SC Highway 81, Design South Professionals, Inc. began exploring alternatives for a new office building in mid 2000. The firm had experienced significant growth, increasing their staff by more than forty percent since 1993. By early 2001, a new office of approximately 29,000 square feet had been designed by DSPI’s own Architectural staff. The new office is the first construction in the new LINWA Commercial and Residential Community planned development located along SC Highway 81 at One Linwa Boulevard. The new brick two-story commercial office building accommodates Design South’s Engineering, Architecture and Telecommunications divisions as well as administrative and support staff in a series of departmental suites branching from a central core. Each suite is designed for maximum flexibility with both individual and open office areas as well as centralized team design centers. Training areas for employee participation and education, break areas, toilet facilities, support areas, library, and multiple conference rooms are distributed at the main core and along its access corridors. Three-dimensional digital modeling was utilized to explore different building design possibilities as well as interior finish selections. This tool again proved invaluable in illustrating lifelike renderings of the building’s design many months before construction began. Site improvements include approximately 150 parking spaces as well as extensive site work and amenities. As construction progressed, the design team worked closely with a landscape architect to develop landscaping to correspond with the building’s unique style and location.